You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.

Somehow I wasn't adding up right anymore. My parts weren't summing into myself.

What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials.

I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.